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Thursday, February 12, 2009
Unknown Presenter--This look's a bit like a Chipperfield act?
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Wade G. Burck
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7 comments:
I believe this is Dickie Chipperfield, who presented a mixed act on RBBB in the early 1970's. He looks exactly the same in the RBBB program pics, so these photos must be from that vintage. Hey Wade, how're ya?
Neil Cockerline
Minneapolis
Neil,
I'll be darned, you may be right. It is Dickie. Maybe that's why the set up looked familiar to me? LOL
I am doing fine,Neil. And yourself? Email me when you have a moment.
Wade
I can 100% that this is Dicki Chipperfield on Chipperfield's Circus in the UK in 1973. I helped him put this act together. I was presenting the polar bears and the alligator act that year. I was also menagerie superintendent. He got the costume from RBBB when he worked there in 1971 with the mixed group of leopards and black panthers and his lion act. This act eventually grew to 18 animals. I worked it as well at different times.
Jim Clubb
Jim Stockley said ........ yes, that's my cousin Dickie Chipperfield working in Chipperfields Circus the year after he got back from Ringlings (1972 I think).
Jim and Jim,
I recognized the act/style and initially I thought if might be pictures of Richard. A young Dickie bear a striking resemblance to Richard which I hadn't noted in meeting them both later in life.
I never got to see this act, but I recall when I was getting prepared to take a break for college and go to Jungle Larry's in Naples, the university job counselor gave me a number of pamphlets about Florida and "things to do". In one of them RBBB in Venice was one of the "must see" attractions and it listed GGW, Wolfgang, Dickie, etc. But Dickie was gone when I finally go to see my first circus in 1974. Our world is indeed a small world.
Wade
Bit late in the day but this is Richard Chipperfield Jr (AKA Dickie) and his very large Lion act at a recording of Chhipperfields Circus by Thames TV in East Croyden
Dickie is showing his astounding knowledge of big cats their flight distances and instant boredom/lazyness by goading the lioness to charge/rush then instantly as her disinterest clicks in Dickie turns and kneels to the ground his back to lioness knowing she can't be bothered.
Great act great showmanship maybe she should have been named Cramer.
Dickie was mauled by pathers scrapping on top of him as hey lay down Chipperfields Sheppherds Bush Green the evening performance. I had seen the earlier afternoon performance
I had previously seen this act on BBC 1 tv's recording of The Blackpool Tower Circus (so was not long after the family came home from South Africa, I saw my first Chipperfields show Maidenhead Moor 1969 3 wonderful cage acts Lions Black Brown and Polar Bears and Tigers and who can ever forget Proff Grimble and the crazy car and Tommy Devile and Vera or Sally's Eggs and Chips!
from Jim Stockley:
These pictures were taken during a regular afternoon performance, 'anonymous' is wrong about them being taken during a Thames TV Show .... this is daylight, all the TV Shows were at filmed at night, with a full house and a lot of extra decor ;-)
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